"Millions of people visit xkcd.com each week to read Randall Munroe's iconic webcomic. His stick-figure drawings about science, technology, language, and love have a large and passionate following. Fans of xkcd ask Munroe a lot of strange questions. What if you tried to hit a baseball pitched at 90 percent the speed of light? How fast can you hit a speed bump while driving and live? If there was a robot apocalypse, how long would humanity last? In...

Told in two voices, when Arthur, a summer intern from Georgia, and Ben, a native New Yorker, meet it seems like fate, but after three attempts at dating fail they wonder if the universe is pushing them together or apart.

Two weeks, four friends and one big bucket list of secrets to unravel… Val Murray and her best friend, Josie had been planning a 'Thelma and Louise' bucket list style holiday. Now Josie is gone, and Val needs to make the trip before it's too late. But Val doesn't want to do it alone, so she enlists the help of her nieces, Carly and Carole, and their best pal, Jess, who jump at the chance to join Val on a trip of a lifetime. What Val doesn't...

Discusses the ways that different animals use their hair to survive, including the polar bear, reindeer, and porcupine.

Are you a sci-fi writer? Do you get stuck? Stumped? Not sure what to write? You're not alone. Writers get stuck all the time. This series is writing prompts to help you get unstuck. Volume 1 focuses on science fiction prompts. There are twenty-five prompts with unlimited potential stories to be fabricated. The same prompt can spur ten different people to come up with fifty different stories, easily. The only thing holding you back is your own imagination....

"From a velociraptor's sharp sickle-tipped toes to a T. rex's giant curved teeth, and from the body armor of an ankylosaurus to the long neck of a brachiosaurus, discover what it would be like if you had one of these wild dinosaur parts"--Publisher marketing.

What if Miles Morales had never been bitten by a genetically enhanced spider? What if, instead, the U.S. government recruited, trained and granted him incredible powers with the Super-Soldier Serum, making him a friendly neighborhood Captain America? Or perhaps Miles was taken from everything he ever knew - his family, his home, his entire life - and transformed into the immortal weapon of war known as the Wolverine! If he was blasted by gamma radiation...

More alternate-reality questions are answered! Imagine a world where the Fantastic Four never gained their powers - or one where Stephen Strange never became Master of the Mystic Arts! Consider the fates of the Thing and the Beast if they continued to mutate - or Spider-Man if Uncle Ben had lived! Picture Conan the Barbarian meeting Thor - or finding himself stranded in the 20th century for good! The Hulk goes berserk, Susan Richards dies in childbirth,...

Titanic tales of triumph and tragedy in the mighty Marvel tradition - with a twist! Overseen by the Watcher, the most offbeat series of all revisited major Marvel moments, asking the tantalizing question: what if? Imagine that a young Spider-Man joined the Fantastic Four! Consider the Hulk with Bruce Banner's brain! Envision a world where the Avengers never existed - or one where they assembled in the 1950s! How about the FF with different powers?...

The follow-up sequel to the bestselling What If? from Shari Low Twenty years ago, Carly Cooper went on an epic quest to track down all the men she'd ever loved and lost in the hope that one of them was her Mr Right. Now, two decades and two teenage sons later, she thinks she might have got it all wrong. As the years have passed, lots of things have changed, leaving Carly asking 'What Now?' With a divorce and an empty nest on the horizon, Carly...